The weather in Champaign on Sunday, Sept. 22, 1985, was cloudy with occasional light rain. Yet that soggy day had little ...

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More than 450 student-athletes visited our Champaign headquarters for Faces of Fall on Aug. 10 — including a host of girls' ...